OET interlinear HAG 2:18

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

שִׂימוּ & לְבַבְ⁠כֶ֔ם

(Some words not found in UHB: make_careful! now heart_of,your(pl) from/more_than the=day the=this and,upwards, from,day_of twenty and,four of,[month] (to),from the=day which/who foundation temple_of YHWH make_careful! heart_of,your(pl) )

See how you translated the similar phrase in 1:5. Alternate translation: [consider carefully what has been happening]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

מִן־הַ⁠יּ֥וֹם הַ⁠זֶּ֖ה וָ⁠מָ֑עְלָ⁠ה מִ⁠יּוֹם֩ עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְ⁠אַרְבָּעָ֜ה לַ⁠תְּשִׁיעִ֗י לְ⁠מִן־הַ⁠יּ֛וֹם אֲשֶׁר־יֻסַּ֥ד הֵֽיכַל־יְהוָ֖ה

from/more_than the=day (Some words not found in UHB: make_careful! now heart_of,your(pl) from/more_than the=day the=this and,upwards, from,day_of twenty and,four of,[month] (to),from the=day which/who foundation temple_of YHWH make_careful! heart_of,your(pl) )

As in 2:15, the word before refers back in time to the whole period after the Judeans returned from exile. The twenty-fourth day of the ninth month means that date in the second year of Darius, as 2:10 indicates. Alternate translation: [from the time you returned from exile until this day, that is, from the day that the temple of Yahweh was founded until this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month in the second year of Darius]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

מִ⁠יּוֹם֩ עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְ⁠אַרְבָּעָ֜ה לַ⁠תְּשִׁיעִ֗י

from,day_of (Some words not found in UHB: make_careful! now heart_of,your(pl) from/more_than the=day the=this and,upwards, from,day_of twenty and,four of,[month] (to),from the=day which/who foundation temple_of YHWH make_careful! heart_of,your(pl) )

Yahweh is leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You can supply these words from the context if that would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: [from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month]

Note 4 topic: translate-ordinal

מִ⁠יּוֹם֩ עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְ⁠אַרְבָּעָ֜ה לַ⁠תְּשִׁיעִ֗י

from,day_of (Some words not found in UHB: make_careful! now heart_of,your(pl) from/more_than the=day the=this and,upwards, from,day_of twenty and,four of,[month] (to),from the=day which/who foundation temple_of YHWH make_careful! heart_of,your(pl) )

If your language does not use ordinal numbers, you could use cardinal numbers here. See what you did in 2:10. Alternate translation: [from day 24 of month nine]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

יֻסַּ֥ד הֵֽיכַל־יְהוָ֖ה

(Some words not found in UHB: make_careful! now heart_of,your(pl) from/more_than the=day the=this and,upwards, from,day_of twenty and,four of,[month] (to),from the=day which/who foundation temple_of YHWH make_careful! heart_of,your(pl) )

If your language does not use this passive form, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [you laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh]

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / 123person

הֵֽיכַל־יְהוָ֖ה

temple_of YHWH

Yahweh is speaking about himself in the third person. If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate this in the first person. Alternate translation: [my temple]

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

שִׂ֥ימוּ לְבַבְ⁠כֶֽם

(Some words not found in UHB: make_careful! now heart_of,your(pl) from/more_than the=day the=this and,upwards, from,day_of twenty and,four of,[month] (to),from the=day which/who foundation temple_of YHWH make_careful! heart_of,your(pl) )

See how you translated this phrase in 1:5. Alternate translation: [Consider carefully]